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Worst Monsoon Floods in Northeast India in a Decade Force 2 Million to Flee Homes, Kill 81


Associated Press
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:25 UTC
Gauhati - The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote northeastern Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes.

Nearly half a million people are living in relief camps that have been set up across Assam state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told journalists Monday in Gauhati, Assam's capital. The rest of the 2 million displaced are living with relatives or sheltering under tarpaulin sheets.
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A view of the flood-affected area of Sonitpur district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, July 1, 2012.
Assam officials say 81 people have been killed over the past four days. Most were swept away when the mighty Brahmaputra River overflowed and flooded villages. Sixteen people were buried in landslides triggered by the rains.

At least 11 people were missing in six districts, the state disaster management agency said.

Air force helicopters were dropping food packets and drinking water to marooned people, Singh said after surveying the flood-hit districts.

Army soldiers used boats to rescue villagers from rooftops of flooded homes.

Teams of doctors have opened health clinics in the 770 relief camps that had been set up across Assam, one of India's main tea-growing states. The hilly tea growing areas have not been affected, but lower rice fields have been washed away.
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Bizarro Earth

Great White Shark 16-foot long, 2000 pounds Spotted Off Cape Cod Coast

James Nye
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:31 UTC
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The 16-foot long, 2000 pound great white shark was spotted of the coast of Chatham, Cape Cod
The first great white shark of the Cape Cod summer season has been photographed just 50 yards from the coast off Chatham.

The 16-foot shark, estimated to weigh more than 2,000 pounds, was seen hunting seals near the shore by the Cape Cod Shark Hunters.

'I spotted a couple yesterday,' said pilot George Breen. 'One was about a quarter mile offshore and the bigger of the two was about 50 yards off.'
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Bizarro Earth

DC Derecho Disaster Explained

Christina Reed
Discovery News
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:50 UTC
Derecho
© Jim Reed, Corbis
A deadly derecho strikes central Kansas in 2005.
As the millions of people still without power today will attest, that was no ordinary wind storm on Friday.

An event that reportedly happens about once every four years, a fast and furious thunderstorm formed west of Chicago at about 11 a.m. and then raced at speeds upwards of 60 mph in a straight line across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. and out over the Atlantic Ocean by midnight, according to news reports.

Meteorologists call this kind of straight-lined fast moving thunderstorm a derecho. And this Friday's derecho already has its own wiki page.

Like other thunderstoms, derechos generate power from convective wind gusts formed between pressure systems. But unlike other storms, derechos maintain a forward motion, basically feeding off the interface between the systems in a race that moves the storm at upwards of 50 mph for distances of hundreds of miles.
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Attention

U.S. electrical grid system suffers 'catastrophic damage' from storms

Ian Simpson
Rueters
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:23 UTC
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Relentless heat was forecast for much of the eastern United States for a fourth straight day on Monday, with about 2.2 million customers without power after violent storms and soaring temperatures killed at least 15 people.

Power companies warned it could take several days to restore electricity completely in some areas as much of the United States sweltered in a record-breaking heat wave.

"Hot and hotter will continue to be the story from the plains to the Atlantic Coast for the next few days," the National Weather Service said.

Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington because of damage from a rare "super derecho" storm packing hurricane-force winds across a 700-mile (1,100 kilometre) stretch from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.

About 2.2 million homes and businesses from Illinois to New Jersey were still without power Monday morning, with the biggest concentration of outages in the Washington area.
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Arrow Down

11 families flee 50-foot sinkhole in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Paula Katinas
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:10 UTC
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After a massive sink hole opened up on 92nd St. in Bay Ridge, crews set to work repaving the collapsed pavement.
New York - Eleven families were evacuated from a Bay Ridge apartment building after a sinkhole opened up on the sidewalk in front of a 92nd St. building on Thursday, according to authorities.

The residents were evacuated as a precaution, authorities said. The sinkhole developed in the afternoon on the west side of the sidewalk on 92nd Street near Third Avenue.

"It's deep. It goes down about 50 feet," said Capt. Richard DiBlasio, commanding officer of the 68th Precinct.

Adding to the concern was the fact that the sinkhole was located next to a sewer underground, according to DiBlasio.

"It's hitting a sewer," he said.

The block of 92nd Street between Third Avenue and Ridge Boulevard was closed to vehicular traffic as emergency crews from the city's Department of Environmental Protection inspected the sinkhole. The area around the sinkhole was roped off with yellow tape to prevent pedestrians from getting too close.
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Cloud Lightning

Wettest April to June in UK Since Records Began, More Unsettled Weather to Come

Richard Alleyne
The Telegraph
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:42 UTC
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England and Wales have already received more than double the long-term average rainfall for the month
Late spring and early summer have been the wettest on record with much of the country receiving more than a foot of rain.

The Environment Agency said that the recent deluges had meant that the last three months have seen more rainfall than at any time since 1910 when the first readings were made.

The highest rainfall was in Wales, parts of which saw 17 inches fall during the time.

The "driest" area was the Anglian region with 11 inches.

The Environment Agencies, which monitors rainfall levels as part of its brief to avoid droughts, made the announcement as the clean-up after being battered by the latest torrential downpours battered homes and the transport network.
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Cloud Lightning

Eastern U.S. Hit by Heat Wave, Power Outages


Reuters
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:42 UTC

Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, after violent storms killed at least 13 people and knocked out power to more than 3 million customers.

Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C., on Saturday because of damage from the storms that unleashed hurricane-force winds across and a 500-mile (800-km) stretch of the mid-Atlantic region.

The storms' rampage came as sweltering temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in several southern cities, including Atlanta, where the mercury hit an all-time record of 106 degrees F (41 C), according to Accuweather.com.

Over two dozen cities across 10 states set or tied all-time record high temperatures on Friday and Saturday, including Columbia, South Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The heat wave continued Sunday for millions of people from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic.
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Radar

Another Earthquake Jolts China


Voice of America
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00 UTC
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Uighur residents carry a temporary tent being distributed by the rescue team after an earthquake, in Nalati township, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region June 30, 2012.
China state media reports an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.6 jolted northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region early Saturday.

State television reports the quake lasted for more than 20 seconds, damaging buildings and residences.
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Bizarro Earth

Overnight quakes felt in California


Upi
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:15 UTC
San Diego - The shaking from a magnitude 4.6 earthquake in northern Mexico was lightly felt in the San Diego area, seismologists said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 8:25 p.m. PDT Saturday about 100 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, Mexico and was felt throughout San Diego County as far north as the Orange County line.

U-T San Diego said the epicenter was along the Laguna Salada fault in a sparsely populated area of Baja California.
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Phoenix

Earth Changes Propaganda Alert! Al Qaida PR magazine calls on Jihadists to start forest fires in the West


World Tribune
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:43 UTC
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London - Al Qaida has urged Muslims to torch forests as part of the Islamic war against the West.

Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has called on followers to set fires in forests in enemy states as part of what the network termed holy war.

AQAP, deemed the greatest threat to the United States, has also provided instructions on how to easily and rapidly destroy forests.

"Imagine that, after all the damage is caused, if a jihad organization were to take responsibility for the forest fires," Al Qaida said. "You can imagine the dread it would cause people in the United States, Europe, Russia, and Australia."

Comment: One wonders why the CIA have gone to such ridiculous lengths to 'explain' the forest fires raging across parts of the US, particularly in Colorado where a meteor may have played role:

Third daytime fireball seen in US this year, Meteor grounds air tankers fighting Colorado forest fire

Law enforcement restricts media wildfire coverage

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